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Abstract: Include constitution, name book, minutes of meetings, accounts, and other records. Also police reports, statements and depositions
in criminal cases, especially those involving James Stuart and John Jenkins. Some correspondence and clippings.

Languages Represented:
English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 papers, BANC MSS C-A 77, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

These papers, from the original Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection, begin with the official constitution of the Committee, June
8, 1851. The bulk of the collection is from June through Sept. 1851, with records of a more sporadic nature through November
1852. The papers include minutes of meetings, statements of witnesses, some correspondence, police reports, reports on examination
of passenger ships coming from Australia, accounts, and other records, as well as clippings from various San Francisco newspapers.
The chronological arrangement, day by day, of most of these papers follows, in the main, the work edited by Mary Floyd Williams
entitled:
Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
(Academy of Pacific Coast History. Publications, v. 4. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1919).
An unbound copy of Miss Williams' book forms a part of the report, with pencilled notations giving folder number of documents.

Key to Arrangement

Box 1, folder 1-107

June 1851

Additional Note

Folder 2, which has been repaired, is now in oversize folder.

Box 2, folder 108-223

July 1-12, 1851

Box 3, folder 224-351

July 13-31, 1851

Box 4, folder 352-475

Aug. 1-19, 1851

Box 5, folder 476-566

Aug. 20-Sept. 12, 1851

Box 6, folder 567-679

Sept. 13, 1851-Feb. 1852

Box 7, folder 680-724

Mar.-Nov. 1852; Accounts and other records

Box 8, folder 725-736

Miscellaneous records, clippings
Official seal of the Committee

Partial Index

Argenti, Felix

folder no. 58

Statement:

folder no. 667

Letter:

folder no. 616

Signature:

Additional Note

(Fragment only of a document)

Austin, E. Gerry

folder no. 228, 539, 553, 626

Letters:

Bluxome, Isaac

Additional Note

Also wrote and signed many minutes, as Secretary of General Committee and later of the Executive Committee.